Read a full match report of the Championship game between Crystal Palace and
Wolverhampton Wanderers at Selhurst Park on Tuesday Jan 1, 2013.

Wolves manager Stale Solbakken admitted his side were “in a crisis” after slumping to a third successive defeat which left them 18th in the Championship table.

Two free-kicks from Andre Moritz and a Yannick Bolasie strike helped lift Palace up to third with a classy performance inspired by Premier League transfer target Wilfried Zaha, who had a hand in all three goals.

The winger stated in the matchday programme, “It’d be a great feeling to get promoted with Palace”, and manager Ian Holloway hopes the England international will stay in south London to achieve that aim.

“He’s a wonderful lad, he’s had a hard couple of months and hopefully he’ll have a hard couple of months on the run-in with us,” he said.

Solbakken, whose position appears increasingly precarious, did not seek to disguise that pressure was mounting on him and his team.

“We’re in deep s--- at the moment. We are in a crisis, no doubt about it,” the Wolves manager said. “We have a fair number of injuries to cope with, that is no excuse, but at the moment in the same positions the competition is maybe not big enough.

“It is my responsibility overall and that’s how things are in football, that the manager has the responsibility for the results and the performances. At the moment we don’t get nearby close to 100 per cent of what we are capable of.”

Wolves defenders Stephen Ward and Roger Johnson were bamboozled all afternoon by Zaha’s trickery but it was another youngster who came closest to opening the scoring. Midfielder David Davis nearly grabbed his first Wolves goal when he crashed a 25-yard shot against Julian Speroni’s crossbar.

This early scare jolted Palace into action and a number of chances went begging with Zaha seeing his shot cleared off the line by Johnson after a neat one-two with Jonathan Parr.

Zaha was in the thick of it again, picking up the ball on the edge of box from Kagisho Dikgacoi and embarking on a mazy run before being floored by Bakary Sako to win a freekick in a dangerous position.

Moritz curled the ball into the top right hand corner to give Palace a well-deserved advantage on the hour.

The home side were rewarded for their continued pressure eight minutes later when Bolasie wriggled past three Wolves and cooly fired Zaha’s return pass underneath Carl Ikeme.

Wolves came out of the blocks with a greater attacking intent in the second period but were soon punished by Zaha as they struggled to retain possession. Bursting down the right hand side, the winger squared to Moritz who was felled by Ward on the edge of the area.

The Brazilian playmaker bent his second direct free kick into the left hand corner of the net.

Solbakken shook up his flagging side by introducing Anthony Forde and Jamie O’Hara on the hour and it was the former Spurs midfielder who created Wolves’ goal, Ebanks-Blake neatly controlling O’Hara’s free kick to turn and fire past Speroni.